Training-machine.



PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907.

E. BROWN. TRAINING MACHINE.

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EDWIN BROWN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TRAINING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.

Application filed September 13,1906. Serial No. 334,451.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN BROWN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis city and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Training-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that type of training-machines in which an inflated bag is suspended in a position where it may be repeat- .edly struck by a person employing the machine; and the object of the invention is to provide a device in which the bag may freely swing back and forth, as in the common form of training-machines of this character, but in which the point of suspension may also move about and give the person added exercise.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved training-machine, a portion thereof being shown in section and Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of a portion thereof.

In my improved machine the customary circular false ceiling 1 and against which the bag swings is employed and may be supported in any suitable manneras, for instance, upon a metal framework 2, inclosing a space the size of an ordinary prize-fighting ring. The under side of the false ceiling 1 is provided with an annular rim 3, having a downwardly-extending flange 4, while at the center of the rim is a downwardly-extending pivot-bolt 5, supported in a bearing 6 and having an arm 7 pivoted thereto and extending out beyond the flange 4 of the rim at both This arm carries pulleys 8, bearing against the flange 4 of the rim, and the arm is supported at such a height by ad justing the pivot-bolt 5 that the two pulleys are in contact with the flange and the arm may freely swing upon the pivot-bolt as a center, but the ends thereof being held in the same plane. One end of the arm 7 is provided with a collar 9, having a punching-bag extending therefrom, while the opposite end is provided with a similar collar 10, having a weight 11 suspended therefrom and adapted to exactly counterbalance the punching-bag upon the opposite end of the arm.

If desired, collars 12 may be employed at l the ends of the arm intermediate the pulleys and the collars 9 and 10 to hold the pulleys in position.

The punching bag may be of the ordinary form and size, if desired; but I prefer to employ a loaded bag in which only the central portion 13 is inflated, while the end portions 14 are filled with sand.

As the bag may freely swing from the end of the arm and the arm is free to rotate upon the pivot-pin 5 as a center, it is evident that the person employing the machine may get a great deal better exercise than from the employment of an ordinary form of trainingmachine, and, furthermore, such exercise would better prepare him for the contest in a ring, due to the greater freedom of motion of the bag.

Many other advantages from the use of my improved machine will be readily apparent from an inspection of the device.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An exercising-machine, comprising a ceiling, an annular flange extending downwardly therefrom, an arm pivotally mounted at the center of said annular flange and adapted to engage with the lower edge thereof at opposite sides, and a punching-bag suspend ed from one end of said arm.

2. A training-machine, comprising a ceiling, an annular flange secured to the lower side thereof, an arm pivotally mounted at the center of said flange and having antifrictionrollers in engagement with the lower edge thereof at opposite sides, a punching-b ag suscounterbalancing-weight suspended from the opposite end of said arm.

3. A training-machine, comprising an overhead horizontal support, an arm pivoted intermediate its ends on said support, an annular rim depending from the support and whereon the arm has contact, and a punching-bag suspended from one end of the arm.

4. A training-machine, comprising an overhead support, an annular flange extending downwardly therefrom, a member supported in engagement with said flange and adapted to move along said flange, and a punchingbag suspended from said member.

5. An exercising-machine, comprising a horizontal ceiling, an annular flange secured thereto and extending downwardly therepended from one end of said arm, and a from, a member adapted to move along said flan e in engagement therewith, and a punchingiag suspended from said member.

6. A training-machine, comprising an overhead support, an annular flan e secured thereto and extending downwardly therefrom, an arm pivotally mounted at the center of said flange and having an antifriction-roller in engagement With the lower edge of said flange at one side thereof, a punching-bag suspended from the opposite end of said arm,

and a counterbalancing-weight suspended from said arm adjacent said antifrictionroller.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 1 name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDWIN BROWN Witnesses:

GEORGE W. BERG, ALroE WEBER. 

